Faithful Citizenship in the USA and Uganda: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Catholic Pastoral Letters on Politics
This article offers a comparative analysis of two 2015 Catholic bishops' statements on politics: the Ugandan Episcopal Conference's "Free and Fair Elections" and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' "Faithful Citizenship." Both statements were released...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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Journal of religion & society. Supplement
Year: 2017, Volume: 14, Pages: 80-95 |
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| Summary: | This article offers a comparative analysis of two 2015 Catholic bishops' statements on politics: the Ugandan Episcopal Conference's "Free and Fair Elections" and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' "Faithful Citizenship." Both statements were released in the run-up to presidential elections in Uganda and the United States in 2016. Overall, the U.S. bishops offer a detailed, policy-oriented, magisterially-guided statement that aims to form the political consciences of American Catholic voters. In contrast, the Ugandan bishops provide a broader, process-oriented statement that reflects their self-styled image as "prophets to the nation." Not surprisingly, both national episcopal conferences uncritically embrace the political imagination of the nation-state, limiting both hierarchies' ability to conceive of Catholic identity in more genuinely catholic, transnational terms. |
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| ISSN: | 1941-8450 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion & society. Supplement
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